Desert Laboratory at Tumamoc Hill

Packed house for our second free youth event! We met some reptiles and made art!

Something new is on the hill! We will be collecting data of birds, bats and butterflies at Tumamoc! Signage to be added soon!

Tumamoc tabling community events!

Our annual wildlife extravaganza was a hit! Over 400 people came through this free event to meet live animals, learn about wildlife and get a ton of give aways!

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Morning babies on the hill! 😍

Tumamoc Hill Youth Program begins The Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill is adding a new program for kids starting Saturday September 20

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Our presenters for the very first youth art and science activity on the hill!

Tumamoc Hill Youth Program begins The Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill is adding a new program for kids starting Saturday September 20

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The 1908 saguaro census that saved an Arizona icon from extinction

The 1908 saguaro census that saved an Arizona icon from extinction: wheninyourstate.com/arizona/the-...

Local Girl Scout troop trying out our shoe cleaner at the bottom of the hill. The shoe cleaner assists in removing invasive plant seeds from shoes to restrict movement of weeds on Tumamoc!

New cohort of UA students who are trying to figure out why some saguaros in Tumamoc died in a windstorm while others were fine

Above and belowground effects of buffelgrass invasion in the Sonoran Desert - Biological Invasions Invasive species pose a significant threat to biodiversity, particularly in arid ecosystems where extreme environmental conditions limit the capacity for rapid vegetation recovery. Buffelgrass (Cenchr...

Above and belowground effects of buffelgrass invasion in the Sonoran Desert: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

GALS is a free outdoor science program where high school girls in AZ camp for a week during the Oct break to experience friendship, nature, art and science. More info: sarsef.org/programs/ste.... The application to the program is now open! www.surveymonkey.com/r/GALS2025

Hikers on Tumamoc Hill share the trail with venomous reptiles Tumamoc Hill draws hundreds of hikers daily, but the popular trail is also home to rattlesnakes and Gila monsters.

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Starting up our wildly popular author series again this year! Free and open to the public! Please join us.

Mark your calendars for another amazing free event!

We got another visit from one of our favorite desert animals!!!

We had a visitor to the offices today! 😍

We are famous! The Desert Lab was featured on the cover of the most recent issue of the American Journal of Botany where work conducted on saguaros on the hill was recently published.

We host a small number of free, indoor outreach events on the hill during the summer. Join our email list to hear about everything going on on the hill!

Indigenous students from US and TO community college helped install agaves into a new garden at the bottom of the hill. Signage to come soon!

Chairman Austin Nunez provided a blessing to our bottom of the hill garden last week. We will be slowly developing the area by installing native plants and useful signage!

We recently received a visit from a local

New bird guides to Tumamoc! In English and Spanish! Pick one up from the seed library half way up the hill.